"We see, in many a land, the proudest dynasties and tyrannies still crushing, with their mountain weight, every free motion of the Consciences and hearts of men. We see, on the other hand, the truest heroism for the right and the greatest devotion to the Truth in hearts that God has touched. We have a work to do, as great as our forefathers and, perhaps, far greater. The enemies of Truth are more numerous and subtle than ever and the needs of the Church are greater than at any preceding time. If we are not debtors to the present, then men were never debtors to their age and their time. Brethren, we are debtors to the hour in which we live. Oh, that we might stamp it with Truth and that God might help us to impress upon its wings some proof that it has not flown by neglected and unheeded." -- C.H. Spurgeon . . . "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:31, 32 . . . . . Our Website is UNDER CONSTRUCTION, please be patient!

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Sunday, February 17, 2013

"Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain."Carnality is described by GotQuestions as being translated from a Greek word that means “worldly” or “fleshly.” In other words, carnality involves worldliness and a giving in to fleshly appetites.

When we put our faith in Jesus Christ we become born again of the Spirit of God. Old things are passed away, behold all things become new. We are a new creation in Christ...given a new nature, the nature of God.

Romans 13:14 tells us, "But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof." In fact the entire chapter of Romans 13 instructs the believer how they ought to be living daily...and especially in the last days!

If Godly character is the result of the Holy Spirit’s work of sanctification in our lives, why is it that we can hardly tell the Church from the world today?

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Introduction:Who are they, what are they up to and what is the Christian response?

Romans 1:19-20 declares plainly that
all men do know God exists because God has clearly revealed that knowledge to
them through the evidence of creation. Those that deny God are doing so out of
the rebellion of a darkened heart (Romans 1:21). Rather than
the intellectual the self-described atheist imagines himself to be, God has pronounced,
“The fool says in his heart ‘there is no god’” (Psalm 14:1, 53:1).

Introducing the Main Players:

Richard Dawkins
is the world’s chief apostle for atheism and has been Professor of the Public
Understanding of Science at Oxford University
since 1996, and author of the book, God Delusion.Belief in God, says Dawkins,
subverts science and knowledge, breeds ignorance, foments bigotry, and abuses
children. All this happens for the simple reason that God is a delusion. Not
only are “fundamentalists” unintelligent for “know[ing] they are right because
they have read the truth in a holy book,” but even moderation in faith, says
Dawkins, “fosters fanaticism.”

Sam Harris is an
American author, philosopher, public intellectual, and neuroscientist, as well
as the co-founder and CEO of Project Reason.Harris believes that a valid alternative to
moral nihilism exists, and that science provides the answers that human beings
desire where issues of morality are concerned.

Daniel
Dennett is an American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist whose
research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and
philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary
biology and cognitive science. Dennett is referred to as one of the "Four
Horsemen of New Atheism", along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the
late Christopher Hitchens.

Christopher Hitchens the late British-American author, journalist, and atheist
intellectual.Hitchens authored the book, God is Not
Great. Just another book ranting against religion as being the cause of all the world's problems. It is so high on emotion and extreme language and
so low on accuracy that it is hardly worth reading, say some critics. Taken
from Hitchens own words, “The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for
trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and
for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was
put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.”

By now, many of us have heard of, or have been confronted by those claiming to
be “New Atheists.” If you’re not
familiar with them, perhaps the names Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens ring
a bell.They are modern day
atheist writers who claim that "religion should not simply be tolerated
but should be countered, criticized, and exposed by ‘rational’ argument
wherever its influence arises”.-- Simon Hooper for CNN

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

~ By James Fire Chapter Fourteen: He Ain’t Heavy . . .In the entire canon of Scripture, there are those doctrines that are crystal clear with no margin for misunderstanding or misinterpretation. When Scripture speaks on the issue of adultery, or idol worship, or drunkenness; on the issues of salvation, sanctification and the nature and character of God – there are no gray areas nor the slightest hint of ‘wiggle room’ that would affect the perception of any honest student of the Bible. There are however certain areas that are not so clear cut and precise, but allows for some leeway and this chapter is just such a chapter. It deals with conscience and convictions on different issues that largely depends on the level of spiritual development of the individual disciple. Since we are all growing at different rates of maturity in the LORD, what one may allow into their lives, another would not.Read more!

Monday, February 11, 2013

1 Corinthians 2: 12-1412Now we have received, not the spirit of
the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that
are freely given to us of God. 13Which things also
we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy
Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14But
the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are
foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned.

As mentioned previously, proponents of the ECM seek to
dialogue and communicate with others within this movement (and with those of
all the world religions) and by mutual consensus, it would seem, seek to
discover spiritual wisdom in their ‘horizontal relationship’ rather than
seeking that wisdom which is from God above (James 3: 14-18).

We know as biblical Christians what the source of ‘worldly
wisdom’ is, and no doubt this source is integral to the very spirit of the
Emergent Church Movement.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men...And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth...Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

"We see, in many a land, the proudest dynasties and tyrannies still crushing, with their mountain weight, every free motion of the Consciences and hearts of men. We see, on the other hand, the truest heroism for the right and the greatest devotion to the Truth in hearts that God has touched. We have a work to do, as great as our forefathers and, perhaps, far greater. The enemies of Truth are more numerous and subtle than ever and the needs of the Church are greater than at any preceding time. If we are not debtors to the present, then men were never debtors to their age and their time. Brethren, we are debtors to the hour in which we live. Oh, that we might stamp it with Truth and that God might help us to impress upon its wings some proof that it has not flown by neglected and unheeded." -- C.H. Spurgeon

"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." II Timothy 3:1-7 – The Bible

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